Not long ago, at Charlie Kirk's memorial service, I sat listening as speaker after speaker talked openly about faith.

Not performative faith. Not “spirituality.” Not vague moral language carefully engineered to avoid offending modern sensibilities.

Christian faith. Real faith.

The kind that acknowledges man’s depravity, Christ’s sufficiency, and the utter miracle that grace exists at all.

And among those voices was Tucker Carlson.

That’s part of what makes the current version of Tucker Carlson so profoundly disorienting. Because where did that guy go?

This isn’t about disagreement. Lord knows conservatives disagree all the time. I’ve disagreed publicly and privately with friends I deeply respect for decades. That’s healthy. It sharpens people.

This is something different.

Carlson has increasingly drifted from provocative commentary into something far darker and far less tethered to reality. He now openly traffics in distortions about Christianity, treats competing religious systems as morally equivalent while strangely parroting apologetics for strands of Islam fundamentally at odds with the Christian worldview he once confessed, and routinely condemns Israel in ways that edge dangerously close to repudiating the Biblical understanding of God’s covenantal relationship with the Jewish people.

And yes, I understand that criticizing the Israeli government is not anti-Semitism.

But platforming open anti-Semites, giving them soft interviews, allowing absurd claims to pass virtually unchallenged, and then pretending this is merely “asking questions” is intellectually dishonest.

Worse, it’s........

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